Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

ELECTIONS

I have said there that when Europe gets a ruler lodged in her gullet, there
is no help for it but a bloody revolution; here we go and get a great big, emetical
ballot, and heave it up.
- Interview Dec. 1889

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe
it in election times.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography